About the Role
Are you passionate about supporting business operations? Looking for a new challenge? Do you have experience or qualifications in scheduling?
As an inclusive, forward-thinking business, we take pride in our approach to investing in our people across Avara Foods and are looking for a highly competent and motivated Production Coordinator to join our Production Team, based at our Brackley site in Northamptonshire.
The role is office based accessed through FMCG factory environment which is noisy and refrigerated in some areas manufacturing short shelf-life products where hygiene standards are critical.
As a Production Coordinator you’ll be working on a rotational pattern Week 1 Monday – Friday 05:00 – 14:00 and Week 2 Monday – Friday 10:00 – 19:00.
What will you be doing as a Production Coordinator at Avara?
As a Production Coordinator you will be scheduling of the production lines and the materials required for product assembly. This role provides real time coordination and optimisation of materials and production capacity. This role operates in a fast moving, high volume, and frequently changing environment where there is significant amount of incoming data from various sources which requires the ability to analyse, process, make decisions and communicate effectively. You will have regular contact and communication with management and various levels of staff.
Key responsibilities
* Creating and managing daily scheduling processes ensuring planned targets are met.
* Pivotal interface between planning (supply management) and production to ensure on time delivery of customer orders.
* Key support to production management on daily operational deliverance.
* Material management and utilisation including WIP management.
* Optimise and balance production lines for best efficiency.
* Commercial focus on minimising waste and optimising raw material usage.
* Continual tracking of actual performance data against plan to ensure corrections can be made to keep on course for planned attainment, and to use this data to continuously improve personal and functional performance.
* Communicate in an effective and timely manner.
Skills & abilities required
* Excellent communication skills
* Ability to focus on the right priorities
* Ability to solve problems proactively and make effective decisions
* Good accuracy and attention to detail
* A logical thinker with strong numerical, analytical and evaluation skills
* Good interpersonal skills and a team player
* High standard of IT skills and advanced excel knowledge
* Ability to work under pressure in a fast paced environment
* Flexible, adaptable, and eager to learn.
Benefits
* Salary from £33,000 per annum dependent upon experience
* Additional Shift Allowance £1491.44 per annum
* 31 days holiday allowance
* Secure contract with long term career development opportunities
* Straight forward pension contribution of 5%
* Subsidised staff canteen serving hot food
* Staff shop / staff sales at hugely discounted prices
* Cycle to work scheme
* Discounted local gym membership
* Salaried Advance Finance
* Salary Sacrifice Car Scheme
* Access to our Employee Benefit Scheme, which includes unlimited remote GP appointments and unlimited mental health sessions, physiotherapy sessions, medical second opinion consultation, and other discounts and perks, such as savings & discounts on weekly costs.
We are committed to being an equal opportunities employer.
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